Word: projects
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...committee on the erection of the Bowl brings up a number of arguments against the project of altering the structure. In order to have the 220-yard straight-away necessary to track equipment, a tunnel must be cut through the embankment of the Bowl at the excessive cost of from thirty to fifty thousand dollars. Not only is this objection raised, but it is maintained that the arrangement would create powerful air currents which would hinder the runners and that the other colleges would therefore refuse to compete on such a track. Other arrangements have been suggested, such as cutting...
...only about one-half of the members have contributed anything at all. The canvassing of 1917 has not been finished and allowance for this should be made. The committee believes that this lack of contributions has been due to negligence and ignorance of the importance of the project and consequently will make further efforts to reach members of the upper classes in the spring...
...gymnasium is practically assured. As soon as the undergraduates have shown that they are earnestly in favor of the project a committee will be appointed to carry on the campaign among the graduates. That substantial contributions can be expected from them is shown by the fact that H. Fish, Jr., '10 has already made a voluntary pledge...
...view of the enthusiasm shown among the undergraduates for the project, a Freshman committee to carry on the campaign in the class of 1917 has also been appointed. This committee, consist of: Homer Loring Sweetser, of Brookline, chairman; Henry M. Bliss, of Chestnut Hill; Charles Allison coolidge, Jr., of Boston, Eric.Alexander Douglas, of Buffalo, N.Y.; George Ayer Parsons, of New York, N.Y.; Hunt Wentworth, of Chicago, III This committee will appoint collectors to make an individual canvass of the class as soon as possible...
...minds by a recent communication signed the "Harvard Gymnasium Committee" is: Can the students who have pledged money for the Gymnasium be expected to automatically pay their pledges, without personal notices that they are due, and without full and entire justification for feeling that this is a project that is being seriously taken up and systematically put through? We do not wish to seem hyper-critical concerning the way this affair has been run so far, but at the same time we cannot help feeling that a committee that has collected a considerable amount of money from the student body...